Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google’s Sergey Brin

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Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google’s Sergey Brin

Threats range from governments trying to control citizens to the rise of Facebook and Apple-style ‘walled gardens’

The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the internet three decades ago are under greater threat than ever, according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.

In an interview with the Guardian, Brin warned there were “very powerful forces that have lined up against the open internet on all sides and around the world”. “I am more worried than I have been in the past,” he said. “It’s scary.”

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